Itzhak Perlman Quotes
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
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Be yourself. And every person is unique.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
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I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.
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Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.
